coon4492 wrote:Can I use the tannin stuff acorns have for other projects.
If you use the boiling method don't throw away the tannic water. The water has a variety of uses. With a mordant it can be used to dye clothing. The tannic acid also makes a good laundry detergent. Two cups to each load but it will color whites temporarily a slightly tan color. Tannic water is antiviral and antiseptic. It can be used as a wash for skin rashes, skin irritations, burns, cuts, abrasions and poison ivy. While you can pour the tannic water over poison ivy, if you have the luxury freeze the brown water in ice cube trays and use the cubes on the ivy eruption. If you have a sore throat you can even gargled with tannic water or use it as a mild tea for diarrhea and dysentery. Externally dark tannic water can be used on hemorrhoids. Hides soaked in tannic water make better leather clothing. Using the brown water turned hides tan colored and that is why it is called tanning and from there we get the words tannins and tannic.
Kortoso wrote:I learned at the Tracker School that the oaks with pointy leaves have acorns with higher tannic acid and the ones with more rounded leaves have acorns with lower tannic acid.
Deane Jordan, Acorns: More Than Survival Food wrote:Oaks fall into two large categories, those that fruit in one season, white oaks, and those that fruit after two seasons, the black oaks and the red oaks. The latter category is far more bitter than the former. The first category have leaves with round lobes and no prickles at the end of the leaves. The black and red oaks have prickles at the end of their leaves. They also have scales on the cups of the acorns and hair inside the caps. Some times those in the first category don't need any leaching, or very little. The rest always do. But first, clean the acorns.
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